(5.) Montagu, Ashley, editor,
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Scott, "Brood guarding and the evolution of male parental care in burying beetles," Behavioral Ecology and
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The significance of
sociobiology is that it privileges nature over nurture in the perennial debate over whether human behaviour is influenced more by biological inheritance or environment.
He even invented a name for this new discipline:
Sociobiology."
The investigation of
sociobiology in chapter 3 is arguably the most important for Boyd's larger case.
(7) This group selection explanation for ethnic solidarity runs counter to
sociobiology's insistence that genes and individuals are the sole units of selection.
The altruistic behavior of humans and other primates became the basis of the
sociobiology of the 80s, whose boom began when Edward O.
Wilson's most important work since the publications of
Sociobiology and Biophilia.
Chase and his McGill colleague Kristin Vaga reported in the April Behavioral Ecology and
Sociobiology that they haven't found clear behavioral signs of conflict, such as avoidance, in the mating of garden snails.
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Attributing the apotheosis of American democracy solely to economic and political destiny, however, would disregard new and compelling evidence from the emerging field of
sociobiology, "the conjunction of biology and the various social sciences" (Wilson 1978, 7).
The net of religion extends over questions of moral meaning and value." Possibly because he despised evolutionary psychology and
sociobiology, Gould was comfortable making this distinction.